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A SENIOR member of the PSOE Socialist Party has resigned due to a corruption investigation that could threaten the minority government led by the PSOE. According to a recently published report, Santos Cerdan is suspected of complicity in the alleged improper allocation of public contracts. The Supreme Court said a Guardia Civil report and an audio recording ‘reveals the existence …

Congress has registered a BILL that will increase the tourist flat rental tax in Spain, which includes a 100% new levy for non-EU buyers of property. The socialist PSOE party group on Thursday presented the first draft written of the package which includes the extensive housing reforms announced by the Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez in January. The bill seeks to …

SPAIN’S state broadcaster RTVE contacted Eurovision Song Contest organisers, asking for talks about Israel’s participation in Basel’s event, Switzerland, in May. Jose Pablo Lopez, the director general of RTVE, wrote to Noel Curran and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) director general in order to discuss the matter. Israel’s representative is Yuval Raphael. He is a 24-year old survivor from the …

Carlos Mazon, president of VALENCIA, says that his region will not accept any more illegal migrants in temporary immigration centres funded by the national government. The announcement on Monday coincided with the signing of a deal between his Partido Popular government and the extreme-right Vox to pass the budget for 2025 through the Valencian Parliament. The regional leader, who is …

Today, the Gibraltar border controversy could re-ignite after Spanish officials began to stamp the passports and visas of those entering Spain from the border. Rogue Policia Nacional officers decided to ‘enforce’ the ‘Schengen code’ that currently applies to anyone entering the EU from a ‘third’ status country such as the UK, i.e. Stamping their passports. The Gibraltar border is an …

Friday, 27 December 2024, 13:48. As Xmas joy vanishes right into the rearview mirror, hundreds of individuals southern of Valencia city are still dealing with 2025 without homes, companies or any kind of feeling of normality. The most significant occasion to mark Spain in 2024 has actually been the eventful night of 29 October when relentless rains left typically completely …

FAST-TRACK tests for squatter situations have actually been postponed by an enact Us senate on the Judicial Effectiveness Costs. Congress accepted the procedure last month however the Partido Popular( PP)- regulated Us senate elected to send out the costs back to the reduced residence, which will certainly likely bypass the veto. It is anticipated to be backed at a Plenary …

FUGITIVE Catalan politician Carles Puigdemont is ‘already back in Belgium’ after he briefly returned to Spain this week for the first time in seven years. The Mossos d’Esquadra regional police force are facing serious embarrassment today after the former Catalan premier appeared outside the parliament building in Barcelona on Thursday, where he gave a speech, before vanishing and thus avoiding …

FORMER Catalan premier and fugitive from justice Carles Puigdemont returned to Spain on Thursday, seven years after he fled the country to escape arrest for his role in the 2017 drive for independence in the northeastern region.  On arrival in Barcelona, he gave a speech to an estimated crowd of around 2,500 people outside the parliament building, during which he …

SPAIN’S Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez exercised his right to not testify before a judge today, as part of an ongoing judicial probe into allegations of corruption and influence peddling levelled against his wife, Begoña Gomez. After the brief face-to-face with Judge Juan Carlos Peinado at La Moncloa prime ministerial palace on Tuesday morning, it emerged that Sanchez was filing …